If I were Pelosi, I am not sure that $5 billion is hill I would be willing to die on.

'I've spoken of the Shining City all my political life. …In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still.'" Ronald Reagan

'I've spoken of the Shining City all my political life. …In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still.'" Ronald Reagan

I see that side too, comic. Put the freaking fence up, I don’t care. In fact, make it barbed wire so it rips their pants when they cross (one of my few dislikes about Montana — land of barbed wire, barbed wire everywhere).

This whole us-v-them thing is ridiculous. I think I have seen it said here the country hasn’t been so divided as it was under Obama. That was true, but not any longer. It’s at a whole other level now — least Obama didn’t blatantly promote the divisiveness.

My point is that we spend more than that on a single aircraft. Not enough to shut the government over. There will be bigger battles ahead.

'I've spoken of the Shining City all my political life. …In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still.'" Ronald Reagan

Joking aside, I do think the wall is a hill for Pelosi to die on. Its not the money. If Trump gets even a pittance for the wall, he wins. the Dem base will absolutely lose their everloving minds. Trump knows it. Pelosi knows it. As a line item, its nothing, but as a symbol. . .its everything.

Let's see what happens once she becomes speaker. The problem is, this isn't even Nancy's hill. Schumer could allow a straight up vote.

'I've spoken of the Shining City all my political life. …In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still.'" Ronald Reagan

'I've spoken of the Shining City all my political life. …In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still.'" Ronald Reagan